RFD: Polysics

i prefer more toned down acts like le tigre, quintron or gene defcon

also: the us release is on asian man records. hahahhahahah. skounds skool!

1. Devo
2. Shouty music

*but only cos a band on the label I work for is supporting them...

"S.V.O." sounds like a direct cover of XTC's "Crosswires"...barely.

Should I go???

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=polysics&search=Search

no no not at all, but polysics do have some good videos

of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3e0w9Zmr0E

(Have no clue why A-Frames were brought in as a comparison point, but whatever.. Polysics rule.)

A lot of aesthetic commonality and IMO one band goes quite a bit further in what they do.

Tim, you're a truly insane mofo, you know that, right?

I can't wait for your "Buggles are five times better than Section 25" essay

But, as you, say, whatever.

(First Buggles album is outstanding, by the way. Second not so much. Never heard your fave raves Section 25.)

I'm trying to figure out how you're connecting the dots here. What is the A-Frames' "shtick"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjJ4z1K-rQ

Maybe you meant to say Polysics were five times better than Man Or Astro Man instead? (In that case, I'd agree with you.)

(implied IMHO/winkywinky/its-all-good-bro-ness here of course)

Not when that's all you do, as in the case of the A-Frames! (But yes, Polysics have lots more stuff going on, too.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjmf9pSXreQ

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Apples and oranges might make a great fruit salad idea, but it makes a terrible band comparison model.

I love both bands in this case, but I can play the same game and sum up Polysics in two words: Japanese Devo. Talk about a thin shtick. I love the shtick, but I think it's a pretty simple bare one, despite the number of things going on mechanically speaking, and how much it tickles my muscial pleasure centers.

Agree to disagree argument end non-shocker.

Otherwise:

liking one band and not another as much --> finding the latter inferior to the former.

liking both bands ---> hearing the bands as different entities.

I was hoping you might have found something I'd never thought of in comparison to the two bands, just as food for thought, but eh, not this time.

Titles of first eight tracks from A-Frames 2 LP

1 Modula 2
2 Modula
3 Nuclear
4 Ionic
5 Electricity
6 Counter Evolution
7 Abstract
8 Futureworld

Thanks for the YouTube links! :D

Farewell.

I just saw these guys last night and it was one of the funnest most energetic shows I've ever seen! Bought the Polisics or Die!!! Vista double record and it sounds great!

Seeing them tomorrow/tonight woo yeah

NEU rocks!!!!

Finally checking them out. More evidence I need to pay more attention to Japanese music.

New album "Oh! No! It's Heavy Polysick" out March 9. Cover is a collage of various people wearing Polysics sunglasses. Hidden in there are the three remaining members themselves. I really want to hear how they're getting on without Kayo. The tracklisting is typical Polysics awesomeness/craziness:

1 Heavy Polysick
2 Bleeping Hedgehog
3 Let's ダバダバ
4 Don't Cry
5 Jumping Up and Clash
6 Go to a Strange City
7 Cough Cough
8 Smile to Me
9 サブリミナル Cha-Cha-Cha
10 3 Point Time
11 Digital Dancing Zombie
12 Much Love Oh! No!
13 Have a Good Night

If you are a real fan please get their Budokan live performance, Kayo's last night as a member of the group, really great set that covered every album. They are insane live. Wish they'd come back around the States!!

btw; new album sounds a lot like Absolute Polysics, songwriting is kind of eyyyy, but the performances are great

Still totally love their albums NEU and Hey! Bob! My Friend!

they have a lot of really good albums now that I look - Hey! Bob!, Neu!, ENO, National P, Now is the Time!, and We Ate the Machine! are all worth a listen or ten

its surprising they have so many since they all basically sound alike

Well their later stuff went to japanese pop for me. They really rock on those two albums I mentioned.

Yeah well Neu! definitely rocks the hardest but I don't think the later albums really suffered. Like, when I first got Now is the Time! I really was wondering where the heavy hitters were (outside of "Coelakanth"), but even their pop side is like 400% more manic and crazy than your average pop band, and in the end it's a really solid release with a lot of memorable tracks. We Ate the Machine! actually brings a lot of the craziness back and the single "Shout Aloud" rocks harder than anything else they've done save for "Urge On!!!".

Weeeeeeeeeee

Japan’s notorious boiler suited techno-new-wave hooligans POLYSICS return with Weeeeeeeeee!!!, their latest high-energy album, scheduled to shatter the eardrums of the UK and Europe from 10 June courtesy of JPU Records.

Following in the footsteps of their 15th anniversary release – which featured collaborations with a number of music legends, including the band’s personal hero, Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO – Weeeeeeeeee!!! sees the acclaimed outfit return with a mighty 17 tracks packed with fractured punk rock, vintage video game sound effects and the refreshing and quirky charm that only POLYSICS can muster.

it's been out for a while in Japan. it's pretty good - better than their last two I'd say. pretty cool how they still pump these albums out like clockwork.

Action!!! - quite good!! Probably their best since, oh, I dunno, We Ate the Machine??? This band still rules.

They lost me after NEU but I still love love love that album.

uh so I see the cover of their latest album and they've got 4 members again? new album is sounding great so far, I had no idea it even existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8D3d8FB6Iw

A friend of mine just saw them in Japan on a whim while she was there showing her work in a gallery. Said it was fantastic!